Donation of Books to H.I.A.

We would like to warmly thank our dear colleagues Panos Tsakopoulos, Yiannis Koukis, and Vassilis Bogakos for their kind initiative to donate the following book titles to the Hellenic Institute of Architecture:

• “Yiannis Koukis / Works & Projects”
  Production and editing by Panagiotis Tsakopoulos, Athens: Potamos Publishing, 2018.
• “Vassilis Bogakos / Architecture”
  Production and editing by Panagiotis Tsakopoulos, Athens: Potamos Publishing, 2017.

The Hellenic Institute of Architecture has decided, in turn, to gift each of its members a copy of each title as a small token of gratitude for their unwavering support.

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Yiannis Koukis │ Works & Projects
Editor: Panayotis Tsakopoulos
Production: Reflections Architects’ Files
Potamos Publishers & Booksellers, Athens 2018

Architect Yiannis Koukis (b. 1941, Athens) has been active in Greece since the mid-1970s, collaborating for a long period with his friend and younger fellow student at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic, Angelos Altsitzoglou (1945–2005), and at times with other architects. His work clearly differentiates itself both from international functionalism and late modern formalism as well as from postmodern iconography, pursuing from the beginning an investigation into the anthropological, spatial, and geometrical components of architectural work. Yiannis Koukis’s architecture, as well as his discourse on architecture, is subject to multiple readings, some of which are attempted by the six authors, architects and theorists, who contribute essays to this bilingual edition, which aims to introduce the architect’s work to a wider international audience.

Introductory texts: Elias Constantopoulos, Panagiotis Tsakopoulos
Essays: Konstantinos Moraitis, Anastasios M. Kotsiopoulos, Nikolaos-Ion Terzoglou, Panos Mantziaras, Nikos Magouliotis, Tasos Biris
Fine design: Ioanna Kostika | finedesign
Book photography: Konstantinos Kazoleas

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Vassilis Bogakos. Architecture
Production – Edition editing: Reflections Architects’ Files – Panagiotis Tsakopoulos Potamos Publishing, Athens 2017

The name of Vassilis Bogakos is associated with the generation of post-war modernity in Greece and the ideological, technological, and formal codes of Western modernism. However, his architecture is characterized by explorations and experiments in different directions, including both convergences and divergences from the internationalist canon.

Alongside works dominated by internationalist syntactic codes, there are studies and implementations that choose the materiality of the brutalist style or the sensitive integration into the traditional environment, or conversely, technological expressiveness, and, of course, a graphic version of plasticity that gives the surface of the wall “its own vibration, to the point of competing with the architectural writing itself.”

The book Vassilis Bogakos. Architecture aims to reposition the architect within the Greek architectural scene and, through its bilingual edition, aspires to introduce his work to a wider international audience.

Essay: Panagiotis Tsakopoulos
Introduction: François Loyer
Editing of Greek texts: Filia Bougioukou
English translation: J. J. Coulton
Graphic design /Art direction: fine design – Ioanna Kostika
Photographic editing: Graphicon – Anestis Kyriakidis
Printing: Kostopoulos Printing
Bookbinding: Libro d’oro
Book photography: Konstantinos Kazoleas